Senator Bill Stoltze announced on the Senate floor today that he will not seek re-election. The Chugiak Republican cited health concerns, although he clarified that he was not dealing with an immediate health threat.
“I’m not dying at any accelerated pace that any of the rest of us are, and I am just not running again,” Stoltze said. “You guys are all going to have to bear with me through all the special sessions wherever they may meet.”
Senator Stoltze is 54 years old. He has served in the legislature since his election to the House in 2003. He was elected to Senate district F in 2014, after state redistricting created a new Senate seat in Southcentral.
APTI Reporter-Producer Ellen Lockyer started her radio career in the late 1980s, after a stint at bush Alaska weekly newspapers, the Copper Valley Views and the Cordova Times. When the Exxon Valdez ran aground in Prince William Sound, Valdez Public Radio station KCHU needed a reporter, and Ellen picked up the microphone.
Since then, she has literally traveled the length of the state, from Attu to Eagle and from Barrow to Juneau, covering Alaska stories on the ground for the AK show, Alaska News Nightly, the Alaska Morning News and for Anchorage public radio station, KSKA
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